Improvement in rubber tires for vehicle-wheels



A. GREENE.

l `Rubber-Tire for Veh-ficI'e-Whels.

No.`l69,100.

-Patentedocr.2e.1s75.

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, some means could be discovered which would UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

JOHN ASHTON GREENE, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT |N RUBBER TIRES FOR VEHICLE-WHEELS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 169, 100, dated October 26, 1875; application led October 9, 1875. Y

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ASHTON GREENE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain newr and useful Improvements in Rubber Tires for Wheels, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to rubber tires for vehicles, and is an improvement on the mode of constructing and attaching rubber tires to wheels for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me on the 15th day of June, 1869, and which vare numbered 91,435.

Experimental use of tires referred to, has proven that they were liable to many objections, and it is the object of the present invention to remedy the same.

In order that the improvements which I have adapted may be more readily understood and appreciated, I shall rst point out the objections which attended the use of the rubber tires made in accordance with my said patent.

The rubber tire, when rmly stretched upon the wheel andlodged in the concave receptacle formed for that purpose upon the felly or the metallic tire which encircled it, would, on being subjected to use on pavements, and exposed to constant compression on successive portions of its periphery, become unduly stretched until it would eventually becomel loose and detach itself from the wheel.

This liability of getting off the wheel rendered the use of such rubber tires unsafe, and had, for that reason, to be abandoned until maintain the tire in its place. v

Numerous and costly experiments have resulted in my overcoming the difficulty named, and this I have accomplished by so constructing the rubber tire, or so combining it with a comparatively unyielding substance, that, while maintaining its valuable features of elasticity in a transverse direction, or radially to the wheel, it will, nevertheless, be unstretchable or unyielding in the direction of the periphery, thus combining the advantages stretcher embodied in the plastic rubber com f pound.

Any competent manufacturer of rubber will lknow how to make the tire from the above Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the tire with its j metallic lian ged receptacle detached from the felly. .y

In the drawing, B is the rubber tire; C, a stout Wire, occupying the center of the rubber; and A, the flan ged receptacle'before inentioned; and D and E are, respectively, Ythe felly and spoke of a wheel onto which it is applied.

H avin g thus described'my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

l. The combination, with a rubber tire, of a metallic core, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with a rubber tire and its metallic core, of a flanged tire, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto signed my name this 25th day of September, A. D.

J. ASHTON GREENE.

Witnesses J. N. WYOKOEF, G. W. DAKIN. 

